Re: trouble building ccplot

[Strong, S. B. <Sha...@jh...>]

Peter,

  Thanks so much for your fast reply. I actually went ahead and downloaded
the 64-bit version of Python prior to your reply and everything built this
time. Now I can test drive ccplot!

Thanks again,
Shay

On 7/17/12 10:22 AM, "Peter Kuma" <pet...@us...> wrote:

>On 07/17/2012 03:45 PM, Strong, Shadrian B. wrote:
>> I am having a lot of Mac installation problems. I understand you
>> recommend a linux machine, but I don't have one to work from. Are there
>> any suggestions you might have with building on a Mac? I continue to get
>> fatal errors when trying to build (see below)
>> 
>> *bash-3.2$* python setup.py build
>> 
>> running build
>> running build_ext
>> building 'cctk' extension
>> gcc-4.2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -dynamic -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv
>> -Os -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -DENABLE_DTRACE -arch i386 -arch ppc -arch
>> x86_64 -pipe
>> 
>>-I/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/pyt
>>hon/numpy/core/include
>> 
>>-I/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/include/python
>>2.6
>> -c cctkmodule.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.6-universal-2.6/cctkmodule.o
>> /usr/libexec/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin10/4.2.1/as: assembler
>> (/usr/bin/../libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as or
>> /usr/bin/../local/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as) for architecture ppc not
>> installed
>> Installed assemblers are:
>> /usr/bin/../libexec/gcc/darwin/x86_64/as for architecture x86_64
>> /usr/bin/../libexec/gcc/darwin/i386/as for architecture i386
>> cctkmodule.c:467: fatal error: error writing to -: Broken pipe
>> compilation terminated.
>> lipo: can't open input file:
>> /var/folders/5n/5nmXq6bHFwGnb61yF+TAkVwwcxU/-Tmp-//ccHNmoeO.out (No such
>> file or directory)
>> error: command 'gcc-4.2' failed with exit status 1
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Shay Strong
>> 
>> *Dr. Shadrian B. Strong*
>> The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
>> Space Department
>> EO/IR Sensors and Atmospheric Modeling
>> 
>> Office: (443)778-9998
>> Email: Sha...@jh...
>
>Dear Shay,
>
>I don't own a mac system, so I can't really test myself, but is seems to
>me that this report relates to the same problem:
>
>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6324912/issue-installing-python-module-
>on-osx-10-6-and-with-gcc-4-0-and-4-2
>
>Allegedly, it is an incompatibility between the version of Xcode and
>Python. On the python release page for 2.7.3 there is a note:
>
>`Also, on Mac OS X 10.6, if you need to build C extension modules with
>the 32-bit-only Python installed, you will need Apple Xcode 3, not 4.
>The 64-bit/32-bit Python can use either Xcode 3 or Xcode 4.'
>
>Therefore, I'd suggest you install the 64-bit version of Python if you
>haven't already. If you have, the problem might be somewhere else.
>Please do let me know in that case.
>
>Also note that the version of python ccplot is compatible with is
>restricted by pynio. Unless you are willing the compile the library from
>source (rather complicated), the binaries are available only for python
>up to 2.7.1 on the EOS, or 2.6.5 on ccplot.org, even though the version
>for 2.7.1 might happen to work with the latest 2.7.3.
>
>Good luck!
>
>Regards,
>
>Peter